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O*NET detailed work activityOperate on patients to treat conditions
Stays humanHands-on care
18 jobs31 tasks
Physical care and clinical work need trained hands, close observation and a person who is accountable at the bedside or chairside.
Part of Treat injuries, illnesses, or diseases, under the O*NET work activity group Assisting and Caring for Others. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 31 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Perform skin surgery to improve appearance, make early diagnoses, or control diseases such as skin cancer.
- Surgically treat conditions such as corns, calluses, ingrown nails, tumors, shortened tendons, bunions, cysts, or abscesses.
- Perform surgery to prepare the mouth for dental implants and to aid in the regeneration of deficient bone and gum tissues.
- Perform incisional biopsies to diagnose melanoma.
- Apply sutures, staples, clips, or other materials to close skin, facia, or subcutaneous wound layers.
- Perform such medical procedures as emergent cricothyrotomy, endotracheal intubation, and emergency thoracotomy.
- Perform ophthalmic surgeries such as cataract, glaucoma, refractive, corneal, vitro-retinal, eye muscle, or oculoplastic surgeries.
- Perform cesarean sections or other surgical procedures as needed to preserve patients' health and deliver babies safely.
- Perform laser surgeries to alter, remove, reshape, or replace ocular tissue.
- Perform abdominal, pelvic, or retroperitoneal surgeries.
- Remove tumors and other abnormal growths of the oral and facial regions, using surgical instruments.
- Perform interventional procedures such as image-guided biopsy, percutaneous transluminal angioplasty, transhepatic biliary drainage, or nephrostomy catheter placement.
- Perform oral or periodontal surgery on the jaw or mouth.
- Suture perineal lacerations.
- Perform surgery on the mouth and jaws to treat conditions such as cleft lip, cleft palate, and jaw growth problems.
- Perform minimally invasive surgical procedures, such as implanting pacemakers and defibrillators.
- Perform vascular procedures, such as balloon angioplasty and stents.
- Operate on patient's musculoskeletal system to correct deformities, repair injuries, prevent and treat diseases, or improve or restore patient's functions.
- Operate on fetuses, infants, children, and adolescents to correct deformities, repair injuries, prevent and treat diseases, or improve or restore patients' functions.
- Perform transplantation operations, such as organ transplants, on fetuses, infants, children, and adolescents.
- Restore form and function by moving skin, bone, nerves, and other tissues from other parts of the body to reconstruct the jaws and face.
- Operate on patients to remove, repair, or improve functioning of diseased or injured body parts and systems.
- Perform minor surgical procedures, such as removing warts, moles, or cysts, sampling tissues for skin cancer or lipomas, and applying or removing sutures.
- Incise tissue layers in lower extremities to harvest veins.
- Perform minor cosmetic procedures, such as chin and cheekbone enhancements.
- Treat snoring problems, using laser surgery.
- Operate on patients to remove, repair, or improve functioning of diseased or injured body parts and systems.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Treat sick or injured animals by prescribing medication, setting bones, dressing wounds, or performing surgery.
- Remove diseased tissue, using surgical instruments.
- Clamp, ligate, or cauterize blood vessels to control bleeding during surgical entry, using hemostatic clamps, suture ligatures, or electrocautery equipment.
- Diagnose bodily disorders and orthopedic conditions, and provide treatments, such as medicines and surgeries, in clinics, hospital wards, or operating rooms.